This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.